If you look at the attached logfile (user2.log), you'll see a 198 second lag between the last and second-to-last loading of the last two addresses: xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults and xml:readwrite:/home/dave/.gconf . This corresponds to a 198 second slowdown in time it takes to log in. Sometimes this lag is up to 10 minutes! I'm trying to figure out how to cut this time down to ~1 second.
Notice too how the "position"s in the log ramp 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,...wait...for...it...0. Could that be related? _ I'm using the current stable Ubuntu (5.10) on ibook G3. gconftool-2 --version claims 2.12.0 synaptic claims gconf v1 is not installed gconf sanity check prints no output and returns code 0 _ I'm not sure its gconf that's eating all the time. Nothing is loading the processor. X is just a black->brown gradient filling the screen, and a movable mouse cursor. _ This is a fresh ubuntu install, there's not much I could have broken yet, EXCEPT, when I was installing from CD I skipped the "configure network interfaces" phase because I knew it would fail. Perhaps as a result the first time I went to log in Gnome complained at me that it would be brain-damaged since its own host name in /etc/hosts. I cliked "Yeah ok whatever, keep going", but it wasn't kidding about brokenness - I couldn't even sudo to fix the problem! I manually added hostname and hostname.domain.name to 127.0.0.1 using the rescue CD. There was a brief span with no problems, then I fetched security updates, and blammo: this long login delay appears. _ After waiting the appointed time, X starts and the vast majority of applications work OK. (Gnome network-admin appears to have a bug with its "location" management)
Feb 25 14:47:32 localhost gconfd (dave-5404): starting (version 2.12.0), pid 5404 user 'dave' Feb 25 14:47:32 localhost gconfd (dave-5404): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Feb 25 14:47:32 localhost gconfd (dave-5404): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/usr/share/gconf/local.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 1 Feb 25 14:47:32 localhost gconfd (dave-5404): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/dave/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 2 Feb 25 14:47:32 localhost gconfd (dave-5404): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3 Feb 25 14:47:32 localhost gconfd (dave-5404): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/usr/share/gconf/local.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4 Feb 25 14:47:32 localhost gconfd (dave-5404): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/usr/share/gconf/cdd.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 5 Feb 25 14:47:32 localhost gconfd (dave-5404): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/usr/share/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 6 Feb 25 14:47:32 localhost gconfd (dave-5404): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 7 Feb 25 14:50:50 localhost gconfd (dave-5404): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/dave/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0
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